The Risk Finance & Transfer Department is responsible for protecting adidas’ profit and assets through efficient & innovative risk financing, transfer and mitigation for relevant exposure by collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to analyze significant existing and emerging exposures.
The Director Risk Engineering designs and implements loss prevention and risk engineering programs to manage property damage and business interruption risks (e.g. caused by hazards such as fire, floods, or other natural disasters) worldwide, thereby supporting the stability of insurance premiums as well as the assurance of long-term insurability of related risks.
Key Responsibilities:
• Provide tailored engineering services for existing and future facilities, particularly distribution centers, major office locations and major retail stores (e.g. flagship stores)
• Drive adidas stakeholder awareness for possible property damage, business interruption and natural hazards and related threats
• Drive risk assessments as an integral part of all engineering activity and in the selection process of external vendors
• Assess impact and to probability of occurrence of identified risks/threats
• Advise relevant senior management (e.g. in Supply Chain Management, Corporate Real Estate, Global Workplaces) in improving loss prevention practices
• Define and maintain company’s global warehouse standards and general property loss prevention guidelines
• Continuously educate internal and external stakeholders on requirements defined in global warehouse standards
• Manage relationship with risk engineering functions of global property insurance carrier and act as interface between global property insurance carrier and internal stakeholders
• Organize and conduct follow-ups on recommendations/improvements with Corporate Real Estate, Supply Chain Management as well as external vendors and business partners
• Support global value collection of company’s property listings
• Support improvements of company resilience
Key Relationships:
• Risk Finance & Transfer
• Enterprise Risk Management
• Corporate Real Estate (incl. Senior Management)
• Supply Chain Management (incl. Senior Management)
• Global Workplaces (incl. Senior Management)
• Global Procurement Logistics & Distribution
• Global Property Insurance Carrier
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
• Comprehensive business understanding of processes and structure
• High degree of business partner orientation
• Ability to maneuver in constantly changing environment
• Ability to operate cross-functionally (i.e. work with stakeholders from various functions and various locations)
• Ability to operate as independent expert without managing a direct team
• Excellent influencing and negotiation skills
• Excellent analytical skills
• Thorough understanding of the complexity, diversity, interactions and dynamics within a multi-national company
• Proficiency to develop tactical and operational plans
• Facilitation and coaching skills to train management teams on risk engineering requirements
• Excellent communication skills for persuasion and convincing others both internally and externally
• Business fluency in English (written and spoken), other languages a plus
Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
• University Degree in Engineering
• 8+ years professional experience, thereof at least 5 years in risk engineering and experience in an international environment ideally within Consumer Goods Industry
• Experience in leading a team a plus
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